Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 297 The Navy Starts with RoRo Cargo Ships

Li Yunlong cannot be used for the next thing.

Hu Zi brought with him a new guard that had been formed long ago. A 500-man Dallion Shipyard guard was drawn from the Qilu Military Region and quickly entered the Dallion Shipyard by sea.

You have to know that at that time the Japanese had not yet understood the Eighth Route Army's strategy. They used this factory guard to control the Japanese engineers in the shipyard to prevent them from reacting.

Start taking early action on industrial facilities in the Northeast.

This is not only the case in shipyards, but also in other steel and machinery factories. The new Anshan Iron and Steel Factory Guard and Benxi Iron and Steel Factory Guard have also been established and have begun to enter Liaoning Province to wait for acceptance.

This model of the Japanese devils is not very deliberate. In addition, the factory guards are directly separated from the army. Hu Zi has complete discretion in the management of the Japanese devils engineers!

This greatly reduced the difficulty of management. For the Japanese, you couldn't treat them as human beings at first. When the factory guards entered, the first thing they did was to arrest all the Japanese.

For those who committed the most heinous crimes and killed people, they were directly executed by firing squad! Let the remaining Japanese soldiers in the factory see the consequences of their crimes.

Of course, the crimes of the Japanese devils were also explained very clearly, so that those who had not committed any crime could see a little hope and strive for the opportunity to redeem themselves from their crimes.

Not only the Japanese devils, but also the former traitorous managers in the shipyard were liquidated. Those who had committed many evil deeds and had serious evidence of their crimes were directly executed!

By beating and scaring them in this way, the Japanese engineers dared not cause any more trouble, no matter how much they thought. Hu Zi used this powerful and thunderous method to control the shipyard in an instant.

According to current needs, the shipyard began to build 3-ton transport ships. However, they were not ordinary transport ships, but were built in the way that Ren Zhong was familiar with, namely, roll-on/roll-off transport ships.

In terms of current transportation, sea transportation is much better than land transportation. Roll-on/roll-off cargo ships are convenient for both military and civilian use. For military transportation, tanks, cannons, etc. can be directly pulled onto the ship.

For civilian use, it can carry anything and is much more flexible than the current simple cargo ships.

Of course, it is not just the original team that is building the ship. The destroyer researchers organized by Ren Zhong in the early days have now naturally moved in on a large scale and started to gain shipbuilding experience during the manufacturing process of this transport ship.

Most of them are scholars, and only a few of them have real shipbuilding experience. Now they can go deep into the front line and quickly learn how to build a ship.

The drawings of the roll-on/roll-off cargo ship and the destroyer are naturally the real good things that Ren Zhong bought from the main world. In terms of the power system, Ren Zhong chose the Sulzer ST70 6-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engine (cylinder diameter 700 mm, stroke 990 mm), with a single output power of 3177 horsepower. This is the technology of the 1920s. The patent is not expensive to purchase, and the technology is not too sensitive, but the continuity of the technical route is strong. As the first ship diesel engine, after Ren Zhong purchased it from Mr. Chen overseas, it will be used as an auxiliary engine on subsequent ships after improvements.

Although the technology of this diesel engine is somewhat outdated at present, and the mainstream large-scale ship diesel engines generally have a horsepower of over 6000, it is precisely because of this that Ren Zhong realized the feasibility of buying it back.

The domestic diesel engine research foundation he has now is too poor. Whether it is a gasoline engine or a diesel engine, the current experience of the Dawn Research Institute is still in the range of several hundred horsepower.

Although it is a bit of a waste to use the Sulzer ST70 6-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engine on a 3000-ton ro-ro ship and its fuel consumption is not very economical, this ro-ro ship is not an ordinary civilian ship. It also undertakes the task of pre-research on destroyers, so the economy is not considered too much.

As one of the two world giants in marine diesel engines, Sulzer is just as long-lived in the main world and is still one of the top companies in the diesel engine industry in the 21st century. You will definitely not go wrong by following Sulzer's technological route.

As for the fact that the ST70 is no longer on the same technical level as later models, there is nothing that can be done about it. The Dawn Research Institute has accumulated too little diesel engine technology.

Now we have only completed the imitation of primary tractor-level diesel engines. Although tens of thousands of diesel engines have been produced and equipped for large-scale use in agricultural vehicles, they are still the lowest-end diesel engines after all. Some of the new series of 3-cylinder, 6-cylinder, 8-cylinder and even 12-cylinder diesel engines now under research have just produced samples, and some are still in the digestion and design stage. Although the main world diesel engine that Ren Zhong took out has general design data, the basic processing environment is different, and the materials are also different. It will take a lot of time to copy and copy the diesel engine from small to large series. This cannot be achieved overnight.

Starting from scratch in the field of diesel engines, gasoline engines, steam turbines, gas turbines, and jet engine power, there is still a long way to go.

The reason why Ren Zhong bought Sulzer's patented production technology was that in the future, he would develop the shipbuilding industry, and to occupy this market he would still have to abide by the rules of this world. For the old technology that this world already has, unless it is for military use and does not need to be exported, if Ren Zhong wants to enter the world market, he would still have to abide by the business rules of this world.

Ro-ro ships are undoubtedly the type of transport ship with the greatest demand in the post-war recovery. It is a bit of a waste of power for Sulzer's ST70 to push 3000 tons, but in the future it will be able to push 4000 tons, 6000 tons or even tons, which will be of great use.

The roll-on/roll-off ship type that Ren Zhong brought out is a very mature one in the main world. It can be said to be the pinnacle of multi-purpose transport ships in this world. Once such a transport ship forms a scale effect, its competitive advantage will be very obvious.

Shipbuilding is a huge costly industry. Ren Zhong knows that it is difficult to move forward quickly if it relies on other industries for transfusions. The best way is to use the profits from shipbuilding to continuously support the scientific research of the shipyard. Only in this way can Ren Zhong hope to make the huge bottomless pit of burning money in the navy smaller. After all, without the amortization of R&D expenses, the price of the navy's destroyers, cruisers and even aircraft carriers can be reduced by an order of magnitude!

The number of these ships is limited, and with the high research and development costs, the price of each ship is much higher than that of an ordinary transport ship.

Therefore, it is important to apply many common military and civilian technologies to civilian ships for research, and then amortize them through large-scale sales of civilian ships.

He knew that even if the Japanese were driven away, what would remain of China would be a shattered land!

Even if he maneuvered and devoted all his energy to solving the two basic needs of food and clothing for the Dragon people, there was still a lot to do in order to turn this big country, which had been poor and weak for nearly a hundred years, into a modern industrial power.

Just providing remedial education is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Among our 95 million compatriots, the illiteracy rate is estimated to be over %.

Because according to statistics from the main world, the first large-scale literacy campaign began in 52. As long as students participated in literacy classes and recognized a few hundred words, they could receive a "Literacy Graduation Certificate." At that time, statistics showed that 5.5% of the country's 80 million people were illiterate, and the illiteracy rate in rural areas was as high as over 95%.

Ren Zhong's industrial development, although it seems to be advancing rapidly and being very strong in the base now, but in fact, compared with the Rogue Eagle, it is not even a fraction of its size!

In 1944 in the main world, the steel output of Rogue Eagle reached 8132 million tons, while that of Detroit was only 1831 million tons, that of John Bull was 1233 million tons, that of Big Bear was more than 1000 million tons, that of Little Book was 591 million tons, and that of Gallic Rooster was 309 million tons. In this way, during the heyday of Rogue Eagle, the output of steel and crude oil exceeded 50% of the world.

So far, it has only been a few days since the base's steel production capacity exceeded one million tons. More importantly, more than half of the pig iron production capacity is produced by the uneconomical primitive blast furnace method. Whether in terms of quality, environmental protection, efficiency or economy, these are all negative numbers!

These can be used when fighting desperately, but once the focus shifts from war to economic development, all of these production capacities will have to be eliminated and rebuilt!
After all, this is not a sustainable development path.

The disadvantages of the traditional blast furnace were so numerous that they were totally unacceptable to Ren Zhong.

All of this takes time and requires a lot of infrastructure construction to make up for it.

The larger the task, the more difficult it is to plan it.

Fortunately, he is no longer fighting alone. After traveling for a long time, Ren Zhong has developed a sense of belonging to this new world, and has almost no sense of existence in the main world.

The business he founded in the main world slowed down its development due to lack of attention. Although it was not in the process of losing money, it still needed to purchase necessary technical information and materials for cross-world transactions.

There is no problem in keeping them alive. Now what they are researching is constantly being adjusted by Ren Zhong to cooperate with the technology tree development plan of the Bright Sword world. According to Ren Zhong's approach, they should have been driven bankrupt in the main world.

However, Ren Zhong kept providing financial support, spending a lot of money to buy "outdated technology as soon as it was developed" to support the businesses of several brothers. Even though these companies were not doing very well, they would not go bankrupt in the short term because of the continuous injection of scientific research funds and the simultaneous development of advanced and backward R&D routes.

Seeing that the brothers are working diligently, the R&D expenses given by Ren Zhong are quite impressive. In this way, the company still has some profit, and after distributing dividends, the brothers' annual salary can be raised to 50.

It’s not that Ren Zhong can’t afford more money. He can now trade high-end jade and celebrity paintings from the world of Bright Sword. These are still considered scarce luxury goods in the main world, and selling some of them from time to time can bring in hundreds of millions.

Maintaining these controlled-scale enterprises does not put too much pressure on Ren Zhong.

This is also the reason why he can focus his main energy on the development of the world of Bright Sword.

The brothers did not ask for reasons and met his requests wholeheartedly.

A lot of backward technologies need to be collected and even developed, which seems extremely stupid to outsiders, but the brothers don’t care about these things. They know that since Ren Zhong can pay for these with a lot of money, it means that behind their misunderstanding, Ren Zhong must have his own considerations.

After doing these things many times, the brothers have formed a tacit understanding.

That's why Ren Zhong's world of Sword of Light has such a fast technological iteration. After all, it is backed by a new world that is nearly a century ahead.

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